LETTER: Combat all forms of inequality

In the United States there is no legal basis upon which gay marriage can or should be prohibited. Marriage has never been lawfully defined as an arrangement between a man and a woman. Attempts to define it as such are nothing more than hate mongering.

"We the people" of the United States recently passed laws legalizing gay marriage in three states by the most democratic of methods available: a popular vote. Furthermore, support in general of the issue has been gaining at an increasing rate since the 1990s to the point that most polls conducted today show a majority in favor of marriage equality. There does, however, remain one obvious and quite predictable opponent of these freedoms: the church.

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The Vatican has vowed to never cease the fight against freedom or, in its own euphemistic language, "never to stop insisting that marriage can only be between a man and a woman."

To oppose equality is a restriction of freedom, as well as a form of hate, so what is it about the prefix of marriage that changes the connotation or morality of equality?

For the sake of progress, it's paramount that we combat all forms of inequality with the same fervor and recognize how condescending and illogical it is for any person or institution to attempt to disguise their homophobia by claiming they believe that homosexuals deserve to be treated with dignity and respect while simultaneously identifying them as lesser human beings unworthy of the same rights as their peers, or in other words, "life, liberty, and justice for all."